Did you know?
Today – Friday, December 18th – is International Migrant’s Day with a focus this year on the stories of social cohesion, which are as varied and unique as each of the 272 million migrants living on every corner of the globe.
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Online events
TODAY 18 December 6:30 PM Jakarta | 7:30 PM Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Hong Kong, Tenaganita is hosting the Webinar “Migrants Rising: Celebrating Lives, Struggles and Identities of Migrants”, a night filled with cultural expressions and solidarity messages from Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia and others in the region. Sign up here: https://bit.ly/2K54S8i or stream it live: https://bit.ly/3gWESHS
TODAY 18 December 8 AM Brussels | 3 PM Manila The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) are holding a Webinar on Access to Justice for Women Migrant Workers and shining a light on the campaign to stand in solidarity with Mary Jane Veloso who was sentenced to death by Indonesian Court following her arrest in April 2010 and whose hearing is still pending. Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3mqf7Ru
TODAY 18 December 10 AM Manila The International Migrants Alliance is holding a Press Conference for Migrants’ Day Protection and Inclusion, not Stigmatization on Migrant Domestic Workers. Watch live here : https://bit.ly/2Wmrm75
Statements/Publications
CPDE and Int’l Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination & Liberation just released a report, ‘Policy Research on Development Cooperation in Situations of Conflict and Fragility’ featuring case studies from Kenya, India, Yemen, Burundi and the Pacific: http://bit.ly/2WxHJh3
The pandemic made migrant farmworkers in Italy “essential” overnight—but without labor rights, they’ve been forced to live and work in conditions that have been described as modern slavery. Watch the video here about their struggle ‘The Invisibles’: https://bit.ly/37qL8Vy
The International Trade Union Confederation has released this week’s figures for the COVID-19 Jobs Cuts Tracker, reporting the highest number of job losses yet spanning 20 countries and 130 companies: https://bit.ly/37v9GNb (EN)
A win for women’s rights in Ghana: ActionAid Ghana has been campaigning for the rights of domestic workers to be protected, and this year Ghana’s government brought in a law to do just that https://bit.ly/37mZczc
ActionAid is part of a historic climate case in the Netherlands, demanding that Shell cuts its emissions in line with the Paris Climate Accord. Find out how its polluting activities are deepening poverty & devastating communities in the Niger Delta https://bit.ly/34lBfpV
Good reads
‘She goes and helps’: Noemí Gualinga, Ecuador’s mother of the jungle: https://bit.ly/3r2VcM0
Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study. A Brazil-wide map of secondary forests over the past 33 years can help regrow Amazon rainforest, stop fires, and curb carbon emissions https://bit.ly/3nsbTOR
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) published “Recipes for Change”, a series of recipes from developing countries that bring you a taste of someone else’s life: https://bit.ly/3oZ4WF9
A quiet crisis: As the economy fractures, violence soars for Afghan women: https://bit.ly/2Ky4P4J
How to confront COVID-19’s cost to girls: https://bit.ly/2K5c6sW
Youth Demand a ‘Fair Share’ from World Leaders Ahead of G20 Summit: https://bit.ly/3qY0vwa
Check out striking-women.org an educational site about migration, women and work, workers’ rights, and the story of South Asian women workers during the Grunwick and Gate Gourmet industrial disputes (EN).
